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Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Comics
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Autobiographical
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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
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She has given me a way out.
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.
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I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
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People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
Alison Bechdel
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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